Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) - Emmanuel Radnitsky dit MAN RAY (1 - Lot 2

Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) - Emmanuel Radnitsky dit MAN RAY (1890-1976) L'Ange Heurtebise. Poèmes. Paris: Librairie Stock, 1925. - In-folio, 38 x 28 cm: frontispiece, (5 ff. 2 first and last blank), 15 ff., (3 ff. last blank), printed cover. In sheets, filled cover. First edition illustrated with MAN RAY's famous photograph of the rayogram, reproduced in heliogravure. Edition of 355 numbered copies, this one is ONE OF 50 ON WHITE VELIN, MARKED H.C. A precious copy which, before being Lucien Clergue's, belonged to the writer Maurice MARTIN DU GARD (1896-1970). It is enriched with this autograph letter from Jean Cocteau: To Maurice // Martin du Gard // l'oiseleur // [small heart] Post-it with Lucien Clergue's stamp added on a cover flap. A very well preserved copy. Provenance: Martin du Gard, with dispatch from the author.